Published 1984 | Version v1
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Low heat flux sodium boiling bundle experimental results and analysis application to natural convection boiling in reactor conditions

Creators

  • 1. Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Grenoble, Service des Transferts Thermiques, 85 X, 38041 Grenoble

Description

The paper deals with boiling sodium natural convection flows. The main objective is to present new experimental results obtained with a 19 pin bundle in CEN GRENOBLE. The following items are covered, measurement of two phase pressure drop at low power and stability analysis of low quality boiling, study of the flow excursion leading from low quality boiling to high quality boiling, dependency analysis of low quality boiling stability on the kind of flow transient (slow or fast transient), and analysis of dry out onset at high quality boiling. A model predicting stability limits of low quality boiling is proposed. The model is validated on experimental results and is used for reactor extrapolations

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Imprint Place
New York, NY (USA)
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the ASME winter annual meeting
Journal Page Range
p. 9.

Conference

Title
ASME winter annual meeting.
Dates
9-13 Dec 1984.
Place
New Orleans, LA (USA).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
17073485
Subject category
S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Numerical Data
Descriptors DEI
BOILING; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FUEL ELEMENT CLUSTERS; HEAT FLUX; NATURAL CONVECTION; POWER REACTORS; PRESSURE DROP; SODIUM; STABILITY; TRANSIENTS; TWO-PHASE FLOW
Descriptors DEC
ALKALI METALS; CONVECTION; DATA; ELEMENTS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUID FLOW; FUEL ASSEMBLIES; HEAT TRANSFER; INFORMATION; METALS; NUMERICAL DATA; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; REACTORS